Night train WARSAW to KRAKOW | Confusing stations, modern train, comfortable journey

[@revolutionibusorbiumcoeles9041]

There is open heart surgery performed currently on the Warsaw train system (new Warsaw West), many trains use alternative stations to operate. The one you filmed was used for short distance trains and is now due for renovation together with the entire underground system. Good channel!

[@filipmortimer6321]

Not to mention the revival of Warszawa Główna station, which basically means that there are now three different stations in the heart of Warsaw with confusing names of Warszawa Główna, Warszawa Centralna and Warszawa Śródmieście (Warsaw Main Station, Warsaw Central Station and Warsaw Downtown Station respectively)

[@vivvpprof]

currently => all the time I remember the labirynth I had to go through when going on vacation in 2021 from the West station 😓

[@maciek77pce]

@@vivvpprof The renovation of the Warsaw West Station started in 2020, that's why ;) It was supposed to end this year, however there are no chances for that :D

[@GourangaPL]

Just for the future use, you can easily move between Warszawa Centralna and Warszawa Śródmieście, when you're on Centralna get to any of the 4 platforms, go all the way to the end of the platform and go down the stairs and boom, you're in a super top secret hidden tunnel that connects both stations :)

[@Baseciq]

So he could smell real polish station climate... ;)

[@vivvpprof]

Tak, generalnie w Polsce bez tego typu tajnych informacji (o WC, przejściach podziemnych, przystankach zastępczej komunikacji itp.) trudno się obejść *jeśli się mówi po polsku*. Dla obcokrajowców to jest wgl kosmos xD

[@migoreng7789]

i used to get lost there so often, that passage is hard to find 😦

[@RealPeetsRikeets]

I don’t know who you spoke to and how you looked but we have lived in Kraków for 3 years and he countless trips to the airport, and the airport is very easy to find on every single ticket machine both at the station and on the train. Also the train to the airport is clearly indicated on all the departure boards in both Polish and English.

[@tomektomek1289]

He does not get it unfortnunately

[@tomallam6509]

I’ve done the trip from Krakow to the airport loads of times... you can buy a ticket on the train. From a ticket machine or a conductor

[@DIEMLtdTV]

When Warsaw Central had a split flap timetable board it was one of the few victims of the millennium bug! Quite a lot of shops under it and a decent station despite it being a rush-job finished for Leonid Brezhnev's visit in the 70's.

[@steve-marsh]

Scott I was on these very tracks just last week! I feel like I'm a few steps behind you 🤣 At Głowny, I always just go to the kiosk for tickets 'Jeden bilet na Lotniska' is the only phrase you need :) Great vlog, great to see Poland content :)

[@tommaroon531]

@@seanbuchanan5402 Great idea. I'd love to see that.

[@prostakuk]

you don't need to go to the ticket office though, you buy tickets for the airport on the train. hope that saves you some time queueing!

[@localwizardmagicservice]

My two fave youtubers, colab when?!

[@john07973]

@@localwizardmagicservice Both travelling as ordinary people, nothing pretentious, refreshing absence of business lounges and sleazy sponsors

[@djmark143]

I agree with the comments here, a collab between Scott and Steve would probably generate a gem of a video 😁

[@Ola99ization]

I remember as a kid getting those OLD trains around Poland. Even 5 years ago I found myself on a similar type of train. Nice to see that Poland is finally modernising and the trains are looking much better.

[@wyzykowskigrzegorz6328]

How looks your trains lad..shut up

[@mareka3740]

In the following years Warszawa Śródmieście will change completely, the station is going to be rebuilt and modernised.

[@kamiloron5592]

Warsaw City Center is not exactly now a station- it's only a railway stop. It means in polish railway language, that on railway stop there's no option to finish the route for the train, bc there's no additional track for this. But yes, it will change completly, it WILL be a station, generally all the railway line Warsaw East-Warsaw West(via Warsaw Central Station and via Warsaw City Center) will be rebuilt.

[@dontme4314]

I was at Krakow Mainstation just yesterday and thought the exact same! Funny coincidence :)

[@hbruins85]

I stayed in Krakow this past April on a biz trip. My boss and I both like to travel by train, so we would have loved to commute to Gliwice (where our company has a factory) by train…if not for the fact that the trip typically requires transferring between two trains operated by different entities, which makes ticketing complicated. We ended up renting a car. But we enjoyed heading into the Rynek for dinner on the Krakow city tram. And beautiful Krakow is a city I definitely want to revisit for a holiday!

[@mikepowell2776]

Excellent video. When I was last in Krakow (about two months ago) the airport train used platform 3. I admit to buying a ticket at the ticket office but you can buy them on the train. You have to going the other way as there’s no ticket office at the airport and the machine doesn’t work. Love Krakow station - a shopping centre in which they’ve inadvertently left some railway tracks.

[@ColinH1973]

It's more expensive to buy them on the train. You can buy tickets online, and download them onto your phone. I have done it at least a dozen times.

[@WilliamDublin85]

I have to say what has happened to Krakow Glowny over the past number of years and the airport train from there to Krakow Airport has been really a downgrade. As someone who has gone through there maybe 15-20 times over the past 10 years, the most recent changes have not been for the better. When the station was first refurbished, with new underpass corridors, refurbished platforms and the old station building was still open, there were a few ways to get in and an easy to find central place for help and ticket sales. Now literally the whole station has been swallowed by Galleria Krakowska Now you have huge numbers of people walking through Galleria, under the train station to reach all the ticket hall, main hall, ticket buying facilities coach station and just to get the other side of the station, people who previously didn't need to be there, added to the huge number of passengers actually boarding the station. Aside from the fact that the train goes to the actual terminal now rather than Balice with a 2 minute shuttle bus, I'm not actually sure the train service is better either. Yes the trains are newer, but the information provision, ease of buying tickets is far worse and whole experience is more stressful and KM seem to have less English speaking staff on that route than PolRegio did.

[@itechmaroc1]

@@WilliamDublin85 In the age where now all tickets can be bought online with a few clicks i don't get the complaints

[@truckerallikatuk]

I did not know that the Paul cafe's were a chain... I ate at one the other week in Toulouse... delicious.

[@maggiebutler4378]

I really enjoy your videos. Thank you!

[@petern6808]

There is supposed to be a small bar/restaurant car (and it was visible in the video) on the Flirt trains. Also there is an underground tunnel from Centralna and Srodmiescie

[@kamiloron5592]

In ER160 there's a bar place.

[@MichaelDembinski]

@@kamiloron5592 "We invite to benefit from gastronomic facilities in Bar Car Number Three"

[@JohninRosc]

Many thanks - another winning video.

[@invisiblehandofadamsmith]

Went to krakow last month from UK abslolutely amazing will be back again

[@kazzicup]

I like this building 1:53 . Solid.

[@jamesdoyle8442]

Love your video Scott 👍

[@bartoszandrzejewski3463]

I miss the old trainz though! Great video!;)

[@kevinmcanulty2593]

interesting video as always.

[@A_Canadian_In_Poland]

Koleje Małopolskie only has tickets machines physically ON THE TRAINS. A surprising fact after moving here, that I discovered that the same way you did...

[@mrkstpn200712]

These trains use the commuter Śródmieście station only temporarily, due to ongoing track maintenance. They’ll be back to Centralna sooner or later. Also, these trainsets do include a dining car, so next time go and order some nice pierogi. :)

[@prostakuk]

oh kurde to ty, co tam

[@marcingluszek632]

5:00 you came throu my hometown called Skarżysko-Kamienna.

[@WilliamDublin85]

Good to see the flip boards are going strong - least it's not like Gdansk a few years ago where there is no platform info at all for Intercity trains!

[@MichaelDembinski]

Flip boards = Pragotron. Google these to see which Polish stations still have them! Becoming quite a cult item across the former-communist world...

[@markg1531]

We buy tickets with apps on our smartphones in Poland.

[@bass7201]

Nope, u r not right I’m afraid. What is the name for an app dedicated to Koleje Malopolski?

[@InPolishWays]

I hope you had a nice time in Poland despite the difficulties!

[@robertofraser101]

Thanks scott good video as allways

[@owen5907]

I remember when this channel was at 9,000!!!

[@Matt.1234]

Great video, although there is a WARS service on board that one. Catering in those trains is in car no. 3

[@thenewjerseydevil997]

Nice and interesting. That was looking bleak. Thanks so much Scott.

[@DormantGames]

lmao, I misread the title and thought it said Warsaw to Kharkiv and immediately thought "hol' up now" that sure would be something

[@valentimgomes8312]

You can find it on the machine. You need to type in "Kraków", the Polish spelling of the word. then among the results will be the airport :)

[@slawosz]

Hi Scott, regards from Sydney

[@LegoAndOtherBricks]

Whole main Warsaw train tracks are under construction. Warszawa Śródmieście (Warsaw Downtown) station will be bigger and more modern. It will be also underground connection to M1 metro station. Warszawa Śródmieście is station for only local conections. So it's only temporary station for PKP Intercity trains.

[@anetawhotravels]

I agree...there is no enough ticket machines in Krakow, last time I was there I found one but it was out of order and I had to wait 15 maybe 20 minutes in line to the ticket window to buy a ticket to get to the airport...really annoying if you ask me...great video by the way! Cheers!

[@adamurbaniak882]

Stadler Flirt is one od the best polish trains. Not as fazy as Pendolino or PESA Dart, but tickets are much cheaper, train is really comfortable and however faster then regular intercity train. PESA Elf first gen is one od the best for shorter ways, like to the airport.

[@yannisbve5220]

For the airport train in Krakow, it does happen on the departure boards ! At least the big one in the main hall. To buy tickets, you can easily do it online, or just directly on board of the train with the guy checking tickets.

[@msadurski]

Warszawa Gdańska was opened in 1880. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warszawa_Gdańska_station From there you can rather conveniently get to the city centre via tram or underground. (10-15 minutes or so: ticket fare 3,40zł).

[@kaszpir]

In front of Warszawa Śródmieście station there is a small red streetfood booth called Lussi. It's an old style point with ZAPIEKANKI. Everybody should try it as it's the best of Polish street cousine. Price is 12 złotych (Feb 2023 ~2,5 €/$).

[@prostakuk]

Nice, interesting to see a mainline train leave from Śródmieście. Couple of explanations for the things you found confusing - the airport train is run by Koleje Małopolskie, the regional company, as part of a planned S-bahn style service that they never quite get round to finishing. The ticket machines are run by PKP, the national company, and they never go to Balice so they don't have the destination. Luckily, you can buy it on the train from a ticket machine or a conductor without any price increase - they're laid back about pre-purchase because they know they deal with foreigners. The train (SKA1) should be listed on the departure boards, so I don't know what went wrong there

[@zackwie7417]

I recommend the book ' Made in Krakow 50 eminent 'xxx

[@radeckiserwach4056]

Ticket in krakow rail station to airport you can buy in the train there is machine , and from person who is checking tickets :)

[@bobbiem.6836]

There is a ticket machine inside train to the airport, and also you can buy a ticket directly from train conductor. As far as I know, there is additional fee for the latter, about 5 PLN

[@DszpakD]

There is an underground pass between those station and dworzec centralny.

[@mixererunio1757]

You can buy tickets to the airport onboard the train, but it is a bit confusing

[@WilliamDublin85]

You can say that again, terrible, terrible designed machines asking a whole load of questions the train should already know, with really strange English terms used.

[@antczak84]

the ticket to the airport can be bought from the train conductor or ticket machine on the train.

[@djmark143]

Scott, At least nothing went wrong this trip eh? 😁

[@Avris3113]

Most trains operating in Poland on long distance routes are produced to travel on short distances. like this one on video, or another marked as ED250.

[@john07973]

Poland is lucky having the right type of snow

[@kilstrit2]

I don't feel lucky, it's unpleasant, wet and immediately turns into mud ://

[@SGtravelsEU]

The ticket machines at Krakow Glowny are of competing operators. Polregio doesn't serve it and doesn't manually update it. The two machines of Koleje Małopolskie do have the airport station in it. The problem is, find the KMAL machines among all those Polregio machines. And they're supposed to be on the same system .... (btw, one of the KMAL machines that does have the airport on it is near the entrance to the station @steve-marsh used on his Krakow to Vilnius video. That one is probably the easiest to find, although it is a bit outside the main hall.....)

[@tori10tori10]

The train to Krakow airport has tickets machine inside the train, on the first car too. Just in case you forget to buy it

[@dcikaruga]

I thought my day pass was still valid, the ticket inspector didn't fine me though, sold me one on the spot instead, and I heard that's common practice. In Budapest, they don't care, they'll fine you all the time for the slightest mistake.

[@piotrnierobis7438]

There is NO PROBLEM with snow in 🇵🇱, we get to use to it almost EVERY WINTER💁🏻‍♂️

[@aileenmarzanna]

If you don't have a load of luggage you can also buy a ticket to Kraków Olszanica from the machines and stay on the train for a minute longer. You'll never see the kanary on that final bit, and it saves a substantial amount of money as well :D

[@prostakuk]

Ha, not anymore. Główny to even Łobzów these days is 8,50PLN.

[@aileenmarzanna]

@@prostakuk jprdl... 😳

[@aaxanimex]

well i know that feeling in warszawa, last time i took train to it from east poland i got to warsaw in station called warszawa gdanska and didn't even know that it existed before (and it was the only place it stopped in warsaw - that happened in early january) and getting to chopin airport from there is not easy at all 😶

[@videocatalao]

I am worried about you Scott. You don't eat well.

[@grzegorzwojtas5886]

Maybe you had a problem with buying your tickets from a machine that chose the wrong company, I'm guessing. In Poland we have a several railway companies.

[@cameronc393]

Loving the videos! An idea for a Glasgow walking video, how many times can you cross the Clyde in a day? I can think of nine bridges/ferries/tunnels between Gourock and Central Station?

[@naruciakk]

I think you can find the airport in the ticket machine (at least I was able to when I was flying from Cracow once), but you have to use the official, Polish name of the station: Kraków Lotnisko. It's stupid, because let's be pretty clear - an airport is a place which should really be searchable in as many languages as possible, especially given the fact that Cracow is a pretty international city and there are plenty of people living there who do not speak Polish (there are also plenty of tourists). But well…

[@prostakuk]

It depends if you're using PKP or KM ticket machine

[@naruciakk]

@NostaIgia I don't think it's improper to use the name of the city in the language you write the message

[@prostakuk]

@@naruciakk Cracow is still fine. It's less common these days, and in English is usually Krakow (dropping the ó). Nobody really cares that much though.

[@xix94]

Where's your coat from

[@janetmackinnon3411]

How is your Polish now?

[@MichaelDembinski]

SHREWD-m'yeah'sh-ch-yeah. Not the easiest!

[@tomaszwardas2778]

Did you try machine insode the train ? I was there last year and bought a ticket to the airport inside the train in machine.

[@ruxiist]

For someone contemplating a journey to Poland in the next few months, which one would people recommend visiting between Krakow and Warsaw?

[@fooxik70]

It depnds. If you want to see modern European capital go to Warsaw. If you want to see more historical city and world heretige sites go to Kraków.

[@bartomiejsaweczko6152]

IT'S snowing much more today 😩

[@paweza9136]

I think there is a possibility to buy a airport ticket I'm ticket machines, but not these red ones on the main station. There is a machine placed on the south of the miqn train station that might give u the ticket. Why? This machine is from a different company, that runs Koleje małopolskie, and u can also buy there other tickets like public transportation tickets(not only for Kraków, but some other cities in Małopolska region)u can get to this machine by walking to the most south staircase of platforms, and then head to the platform 1, but don't get up there, go further and u will see this pathway with a green roof. At the end there is an old station building and it would be just down the stairs. About the disorganisation, i actually had no idea it might be so hard to buy the Airport ticket, but becouse it is its own tariff(very expensive, no matter if u go full route from Wieliczka or już one stop, u will pay abou 17zl if I remember right).

[@richardbutler4488]

They obviously don’t want you flying ✈️ away 🤩 to the airport!

[@piotrnierobis7438]

That's rights. When KRAKÓW AIRPORT was on the ticket machine system It costs 35 p (0.35£) so bloody BUSTARDS 😱😥 removed it and are NOW charging £1.50 flat rate for 15min⏱️ train trip

[@Maiscape]

Scott, when is the best time to travel to Krakow?

[@Andy-ig9ky]

Hi Miss,I would say summer time is perfect time for trip to Krakow,try June July and August the weather is nice and long days. And if you feel like try go to Auschwitz,in fact it's a bleak scary place you can feel the horror and pain of those people. Anyway 😉 mind your self good luck.

[@podr0znik1]

If you ever need to get to Warszawa Śródmieście again, try to find the underground passage from Centralna. There is one way to go without coming above the ground. You like challenges, right? 🙂

[@PoleApart1]

This is really a Warsaw insider secret. It's also the best way to get from Centralna to the metro when it's cold or raining. No signs anywhere and you need to pick the middle platforms at Śródmieście to get to the stairs closest to Centrum metro station.

[@simonbaflo5795]

5 strangers?Y are stranger from Scotland! Speaking some strange language in Poland with strange accent 😁🤫🍻

[@Van_Tage]

yeah, Warszawa Śródmieście (Warsaw Downtown) is the place where you can still feel this stincking smell of communism :D Fortunately it will be modernized soon.

[@MichaelDembinski]

It's much better than it was! Station had a revamp in 2011, ahead of the 2012 UEFA football championships hosted by Poland and Ukraine. Before that (and the tunnel fire in 2009 caused by homeless people living there warming themselves by lighting bonfires from old cardboard boxes!) this station stank so much it was nicknamed "Smródmieście" ('stinktown')

[@Van_Tage]

@@MichaelDembinski this name is used still :)

[@jonasvanderschueren]

The reason you cannot buy tickets to the airport from the ticket machines is because the service is provided by the provincial Koleje Małopolskie! PKP split in the early 2000s between intercity lines and regional lines, with the regional lines being moved to provincial ownership (and rebranding) throughout the 2010s. If I remember correctly, all these companies are still supposed to share the same IT system (PKP Informatyka), but for some reason that does not extend to an integrated ticketing system. It can be really confusing for visitors, but after living in Poland for awhile you get used to buying all your tickets online or via apps.

[@bass7201]

Somehow I was able to get to the airport from Krakow Glowny by train as I had a change there although Google Maps suggested a trip on the bus for that leg of journey. Malopolskie Koleje - local railway operator seems not to be recognised on the Google service. Shame on the Polish Railawys PKP as they do not care about passengers’ convenience at all.

[@richardboughton8338]

Did that trip @the same time of year, with a view to visiting Auschwitz. Talk about cold. Last time i was that cold was at a St. Johnstone match one evening (Im English but at the time was Scottish Ground Hopping). Snow on the ground in both Warzaw and Krakow, we arrived after having asked around, quickly found our way to the K'kow bus terminus for a service bus to Oswiecim having been told we were too late to book an 'official tour'. Fair enough, you cant just go 'swanning around' Auschwitz, because its a memorial site, but we figured at least go and see what we could. That journey was a nightmare what with the snow making driving diffucult, and dare I say dangerous(The Polish locals thought is was great) , as a consequence it took over an hour(people think Auschwitz is close to K'kow, it aint). Resulting in us arriving around 3pm on a dark, dismal, depressing Polish winter's afternoon at @3pm only to find the Museum was closing for the day!! We then had to wait for the next bus out of Dodge. Weird thing that struck me was that there is a gift shop there. Whilst i didnt see any rock for sale, they will sell you Pizza and cokes!!!!!! Just how bizarre is that based on what happened there!?The train ride back was so uncomfortable, what with the heating cranked up to 11,that i was climbing the walls by time we reached Warzaw. We will go back but next time we will be taking sunscreen and not chap ped lips preperation.

[@jaroslawpeter3586]

In Poland in wintertime at 3 pm it's normally getting dark so your trip to Auschwitz did not have a chance to succeed. Yes, I believe it was such a nightmare, depressing, dismal, uncomfortable experience... Now imagine my Polish father who was only 18 in 1942 when Germans sent him to Auschwitz as Polish political prisoner. In the winter the prisoners did not sweaters and socks there, just shoes made from wood. No pizza and coke, just watery soup and piece of bread made mainly of sawdust. Nevertheless he had survived. Perhaps there are some places where we should keep things in perspective. I did not visit go to Auschwitz yet, but I finally will. I have to.

[@WilliamDublin85]

There are ticket machines on the Koleje Małopolskie trains to Krakow Glowny, where you can buy the ticket to the airport however they are probably the worst designed machines I have ever seen on a train. You can tell the people who designed them had no experience in designing for transit systems. You have to go through about 8 steps of unclearly translated screens with not very clear terminology, including telling the system exactly what train number you want the ticket for, the origin and destination station amongst other things Any half way decent system could do that for you. Sadly whilst KM taking over that line from PolRegio a few years ago has brought new trains, it also ended the ability for you to buy tickets from the far more friendly ticket machines in the tration station (even used to be some on platforms next to where the train leave). It also brought with it poor signage and conflicting information. For example, at Krakow Airport station it says you can only buy tickets with cash, yet everywhere else it says you can with card and similar differences..

[@JohnMitch]

I found in Poland there were only 2 types of trains. Slow and Slower

[@prostakuk]

200km/h is slow or slower?

[@JohnMitch]

@@prostakuk I never found one of those, Fastest Travel Time Warsaw to Prague 8hrs:08min distance 740 km = 91 KMh

[@msadurski]

Wroclaw to Prague is not a good example.

[@JohnMitch]

@@msadurski Well show us a good example of a Polish train that does in excess of 100 kmh

[@msadurski]

@@JohnMitch In excess? No. But most of EIP trains do average 100km/h . Warsaw-Kraków, Warsaw-Gdańsk… There is a fairly good connection Warsaw - Łódź too (LS trains). These are the trains I used to travel.

[@TheOutlander82]

Confusing stations? go to Poznań:D

[@ColinH1973]

Get your teeth fixed, Rudolph. It's okay everyone, he never reads any comments. It's a joke.

[@zdzichuzestrychu3167]

w Smród-Śmieci Warszawa Station..

[@davidoliver1169]

Another corker Scott

[@yamatokatiro2290]

are u a spy ?

[@smoothmicra]

Lol, another travel experience I have no interest in pursuing, this is "wish you were here" for people you don't like. Top marks for honesty chap, come on Poland train boards that don't work? The war ended a long time ago, spend some money!

[@prostakuk]

Two of the most up-and-coming cities in Europe, one in the top 10 tourist destinations? It's ok, we'll do without your visit:)

[@niewiemniewiem7618]

Film zrealizowany w Polsce. A Polskich napisów brak. 🌿🕊️🌿

[@yagi3925]

Polish organization...

[@bass7201]

Polnische Wirtschaft

[@wladyslawbukowski]

What a pushy complainer, I hope not all Scots are like that.

[@bass7201]

Sod off Vlad!

[@wladyslawbukowski]

@@bass7201 I'm sorry, but I also have the right to express my opinion. Take this half seriously, half jokingly, because I enjoy watching your very interesting videos anyway. Regards from Sydney.

[@bartekzima]

schroodmieschchie - śródmieście , sch - ś , oo - u- ó , schch - cie , ś- cie , polish is an easy language🥱 śródmieście - downtown , śród - midst , mieście - miasto - city , in the midst of the city - w środku miasta .

[@tomektomek1289]

You seem to build problems there are not exist. If you travel anywhere you should first check out how it works....You do not need any mashines to Cracow Airport because they are on the train and moreover you can but a ticket from the train conductors . You must prepare yourself better next time before your journey....